U.S. Special Envoy Holbrooke in Intensive Care After Falling Ill at Office

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Source: Bloomberg

Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, is in the intensive care unit at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, according to a hospital official who asked not to be identified.

Holbrooke, 69, has spent the last two years traveling to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and seeking support from allies to help promote economic development and stabilize the neighboring countries that have been plagued by terrorism.

Holbrooke felt ill while working yesterday on the seventh floor of the State Department headquarters, where Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s office is located, said Philip J. Crowley, the department spokesman.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was also admitted yesterday to George Washington University Hospital in northwest Washington for surgery to remove a kidney stone.Geithner’s surgery was “completed without incident,” Treasury spokesman Steve Adamske said in an e-mail. “The secretary is feeling much better and after the procedure spoke with his staff at about 7 p.m. to get a rundown on the day. Geithner’s staff reports that he’s clearly eager to get back to work.”

Holbrooke is a veteran diplomat who, as an assistant secretary of state under President Bill Clinton, was the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton accords that ended the war in Bosnia in the 1990s. He later served as the U.S. envoy to the United Nations

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Doesn't sound good.